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<h1>THE WONDER BOOK</h1>
<h1>OF BIBLE STORIES</h1><br/>
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<h2><SPAN name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></SPAN> INTRODUCTION</h2>
<p>The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the
world, but unlike most of the ancient books, it is found not
only in great libraries, but in almost every home of the
civilized world; and it is not only studied by learned
scholars, but read by the common people; and its many stories
grasp and hold the attention of little children. Happy is that
child who has heard, over and over again, the Bible stories
until they have become fixed in his mind and memory, to become
the foundations of a noble life.</p>
<p>It is with the desire of aiding parents and teachers in
telling these stories, and aiding children to understand them,
also in the hope that they may be read in many schools, that a
few among the many interesting stories in the Bible have been
chosen, brought together and as far as necessary simplified to
meet the minds of the young.</p>
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<p>Jesse Lyman Hurlbut</p>
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